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Democrats’ plan to win the sequestration war: Demand more tax hikes, of course

Senate Democrats are digging in against Republican calls for deeper spending cuts by bringing out some of their favorite punching bags: corporate jets, Wall Street and Big Oil.

With the automatic budget cuts in the sequester coming up next month, Democrats hope to vote on an alternative plan to raise taxes on some of their favorite boogeymen in hopes of shifting the blame when the GOP inevitably rejects it…

According to sources familiar with the matter, Democrats are leaning toward a plan that would be split 50-50 between spending cuts and tax hikes, financed in large part by new taxes on corporate and wealthy taxpayers.

“I’m not identifying replacement cuts — I’m working on a balanced solution,”Mikulski told POLITICO on Thursday. “We’ve already taken those cuts. … I think there’s consensus that we need revenue and there’s also an understanding that we’ve already worked to substantially cut domestic spending.”

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As a dues paying union member and lifelong democrat voter I can’t tell you how disappointed I am with these elected democrats. America could have been at peak prosperity and peace for the last century if they had just not caved to the free market and liberty minded republicans. All property and prosperity is shared. Tax rates are at least half of what they should be. We need the revenue to make investments for the children, the indigent, the imbecilic, the women, minorities, the disenfranchised, those in food deserts, those who suffer from restless leg syndrome, the lgbgt community, those who are height challenged, those who live in blighted urban areas, victims of crime, and everyone else who does not affiliate as conservative or republican. The time is now to build an America under unified party rule, a nation that will last 1000 years. The failed policies of the last where the fruits of one’s labor were greedily and selfishly held onto and passed from generation must end now. These unpatriotic neanderthals need to be shown to see the error of their ways. They should be excluded from participation in institutions. Together, we democrats can build a future of collective salvation. Its time for the good and intelligent folk to rise up and say no more. No more inequality. No more individual determination. In this new millennium all have a role to play. The collective good rides on your duty to others.

The $800 BILLION so-called stimulus is now part of the baseline every single year and they can’t find anything to cut? My opening offer if I were the GOP would be to reset the budget to where it would have been without the stimulus. I loathe Democrats.